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Container-based virtualization platforms provide a means to run multiple applications in separate instances. Container technologies can provide significant benefits to DevOps, including increased scalability, resource efficiency, and resiliency. Unless containers are decoupled from the host system, however, there will be...

This post is the latest installment in a series aimed at helping organizations adopt DevOps. Tools used in DevOps environments such as continuous integration and continuous deployment speed up the process of pushing code to production. Often this means continuous...

"Software security" often evokes negative feelings among software developers since this term is associated with additional programming effort and uncertainty. To secure software, developers must follow a lot of guidelines that, while intended to satisfy some regulation or other, can...

Software development teams often view software security as an afterthought, something that can be added on after the product is fully functional. Although this approach may have made some sense in the past, today it's largely seen as a mistake...

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Container-based virtualization platforms provide a means to run multiple applications in separate instances. Container technologies can provide significant benefits to DevOps, including increased scalability, resource efficiency, and resiliency. Unless containers are decoupled from the host system, however, there will be the potential for security problems. Until that decoupling happens, this blog posting describes why administrators should keep a close eye on the privilege levels given to applications running within the containers and to users accessing the host system.